Calendar:
Now - Mar 1: Re-enrollment for 2023-24 school year
Now - Mar 1: Summer Program registration for enrolled students
Feb 17: No School, Campus Closed for Staff Professional Day
Feb 20: No School, Campus Closed for Presidents Day
Feb 21 - Mar 3: Parent Visiting Days, scheduled visits, Elementary, instructions coming from guides
Feb 22: Swimming – Sandra
Feb 23: Parent Visiting Day, Primary only, 8:30-9:30
Feb 23: Montessori Up Close: A conversation about creating a culture of dignity, 4 - 5:30 p.m. at TCH, details here
Feb 24: Coffee & Connect, 8 - 9 a.m. details here
Feb 24: Swimming – Nadine
Feb 28: Junior High Montessori Up Close: Social Emotional and Physical Development, 7 - 8:30 via Zoom, details here
Mar 1: CHiPA meeting, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m., in person and via Zoom, details here
Mar 1: Re-enrollment forms and deposits due for 2023-24 school year
Mar 1: Summer Program registration deadline for currently enrolled students
Mar 2: Learning Opportunity for Parents of 3rd-6th Years: Human Growth & Development with Carrie Ullery-Smith, 7 - 8:30 p.m. via Zoom, details here
Mar 2: Theater Workshop Dress Rehearsal: The Phantom Tollbooth, 1:45 p.m. (student audience only)
Mar 3 & 4: Theater Workshop Performances: The Phantom Tollbooth, 6 p.m. in the Barn, details here
Mar 6: Tuition Assistance applications and co-op applications due
Mar 6: Coffee with Trisha Short, 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the Community Room
Mar 6-9: Human Growth and Development (3rd - 8th Years)
Mar 7: Technology & Mental Health: What is the Link? What Can We Do? with Jill Walsh, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. via Zoom, registration required
Mar 9 & 10: Parent-Teacher Conferences, see below
Mar 10: No School, for conferences
Mar 14-18: Montessori Model United Nations, 6th year trip to New York City
Look further ahead...
In The Know:
New! Parent Teacher Conferences - Sign Up Here, March 9 & 10
Sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences today! They are an important (and required) opportunity for you to talk with your child’s guide about your child’s classroom experience and progress. Click here to sign up. Please contact your child’s guide or the front desk with any questions: 929-9325.
Be SMART
Kira Walkup, local representative of the national Be SMART campaign, joined us via Zoom on February 7 to share about the Be SMART campaign and how our community can make a difference in keeping children safe by normalizing the expectation that guns are to be securely stored away from children. The recording and handout are now available on our Video Archives page!
Bright Futures Fund & Gala
Our Bright Futures Fund supports our school - the people and the physical space - now and well into the future. Make a gift or pledge and then celebrate with us at our Bright Futures Gala on Friday, April 21! Being an event sponsor is a great way to support our school and gain awareness for your business. Check out the sponsors who are leading the way! When you frequent these businesses, please thank them for supporting our school. To become a sponsor, click here.
Updated! Extracurriculars
Elementary students have expressed interest in having a robotics club. Thanks to parent volunteers we will have an upper elementary robotics club starting in April! Stay tuned for more information.
We are still looking for parent volunteers to help lead the the lower elementary program–no experience necessary! Two parent volunteers are needed to run this afterschool session once each week for 8 weeks, April through May. Please email Kim if you are interested in supporting this program.
Norte race team information is now available. Visit our extracurriculars page for more information.
Sign up for text alerts:
In addition to an email alerting you about school closings and delays, we notify parents by text message via Remind. Simply download the Remind app (Android / Apple) to your mobile device and set up an account. Then, Text @hg6c3f2 to the number 81010. You will receive a welcome text from Remind. The class is titled TCH Parent
Blog:
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at the Children's House
by Michele Shane
“Order and discipline must be aimed at the attainment of human harmony, and any act that hinders the establishment of a genuine community of all mankind must be regarded as immoral Continue Reading...
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